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NICMOS performance on the Hubble Space Telescope
Author(s) -
Rodger I. Thompson,
Glenn Schneider
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.324453
Subject(s) - hubble space telescope , hubble deep field south , physics , hubble ultra deep field , astronomy , spectrometer , telescope , sample (material) , spitzer space telescope , space (punctuation) , hubble deep field , optics , computer science , stars , thermodynamics , operating system
NICMOS, the near IR camera and multi-object spectrometer was placed in the Hubble Space Telescope in February 1997. Since then it has ben carrying out and extensive program of scientific research. This paper presents the current status and performance of the instrument along with a sample of the observations that have been carried out to this date.

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